The phrase "a defilement" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the act of making something dirty, unclean, or morally impure.
Example: "The defilement of the sacred site was met with outrage from the community."
Alternatives: "a contamination" or "an impurity".
And it's a defilement of sacred matters.
To put an Islamic center so close, they say, would amount to a defilement.
For nine years I had been in the Preserves, and never had I experienced such a defilement.
Palestinians see it as an affront to the Muslim tradition of immediate burial, and a defilement of their honor.
Grass called it an "insult," a "defilement of history," because among the thousands of graves were the remains of forty-nine Waffen S.S. soldiers.
Romanowski spent most of yesterday's session answering questions about the incident, not because it represented a defilement of sportsmanship, but because it lighted a fire that threatened to engulf the team.
Being forced to publicly remove the hijab, the lawsuit contends, "is a profound defilement of the wearer's sincerely-held religious beliefs and a violation of her religious practice".
The headnote to the two poems reads: :"Having been summoned to the palace for a poetry gathering on the thirteenth day of the second month in the second year of Shokyu [1220], I had begged to be excused because of a ritual defilement, it being the anniversary of my mother's death.
In many places, the antimaterialist hippies' arrival stimulated a crass tourist trade and an attendant defilement of native culture.
Victims often report a feeling of perpetual defilement, an inability to feel clean, an overwhelming sense of vulnerability, and a paralyzing feeling of lack of control over their lives.
Hardly a day passes without an African newspaper, radio or TV report focusing on a fresh case of defilement, a sex crime against juveniles that seems to thrive on widespread poverty.
